Chapter 518

• The flight landed in under three hours and I woke up groggily, having gone to sleep in the large bed at the back of the aircraft. Lucien was not to be seen; he had insisted that I rest and I had given in although I was slightly piqued with him for dragging me back. I had just managed to look at Schwartz through the large glass partition and all I could make out was his poor body swathed in bandages.
• We drove back home, Lucien barking orders at people all the while, switching from one phone to another. I could make out that he had already begun to exact revenge and that at least a handful of the evil Monk’s men had met their maker…
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